Obesity

Anti-Lipase Potential of the Organic and Aqueous Extracts of Ten Traditional Edible and Medicinal Plants in Palestine; a Comparison Study with Orlistat.

Herbs have played a fundamental and essential role in the humans life since ancient times, especially those which are used as food and/or folk medicinedue to both their nutritive and curative properties.This study aimed to investigate new antilipase agents from tentraditional Palestinian edible and medicinal plants through inhibition of the absorption of dietary lipids. The anti-lipase activity ...

Vitamin D Deficiency and Atopic Dermatitis: Consider Disease, Race, and Body Mass.

Vitamin D deficiency causes rickets, but has been associated with various diseases, including atopic dermatitis (AD). This study analyzes serum vitamin D in pediatric medical center patients with AD and potential confounding factors. At Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, charts of 665 children with serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels taken between 2009 and 2013 were retrospectively reviewed. Defin...

Modern drug design: the implication of using artificial neuronal networks and multiple molecular dynamic simulations.

We report the implementation of molecular modeling approaches developed as a part of the 2016 Grand Challenge 2, the blinded competition of computer a...

A Fully Automated Conversational Artificial Intelligence for Weight Loss: Longitudinal Observational Study Among Overweight and Obese Adults.

BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes is the most expensive chronic disease in the United States. Two-thirds of US adults have prediabetes or are overweight and...

Hypocalcemia and osteomalacia after bariatric surgery.

INTRODUCTION: Obesity has become a major health problem not only in industrialized societies but also in developing countries. Multiple studies have s...

Poor vitamin D status increases the risk of anemia in school children: National Food and Nutrition Surveillance.

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate the association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) concentrations and the risk of anemia in a large coh...

The effectiveness of various robotic technologies in assisting older adults.

There is concern about the expanding size of the ageing population and burgeoning care costs for older adults. Robotic technology could assist older a...

Validation of a Machine Learning Approach for Venous Thromboembolism Risk Prediction in Oncology.

Using kernel machine learning (ML) and random optimization (RO) techniques, we recently developed a set of venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk predictor...

A machine learning approach for the identification of new biomarkers for knee osteoarthritis development in overweight and obese women.

OBJECTIVE: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is among the higher contributors to global disability. Despite its high prevalence, currently, there is no cure fo...

Expression of AdipoR1 and AdipoR2 Receptors as Leptin-Breast Cancer Regulation Mechanisms.

The development of breast cancer is influenced by the adipose tissue through the proteins leptin and adiponectin. However, there is little research co...

An artificial neural network to predict resting energy expenditure in obesity.

BACKGROUND & AIMS: The resting energy expenditure (REE) determination is important in nutrition for adequate dietary prescription. The gold standard i...

Persistent light to moderate alcohol intake and lung function: A longitudinal study.

Alcohol intake has been inconsistently associated with lung function levels in cross-sectional studies. The goal of our study was to determine whether...

Parsing learning in networks using brain-machine interfaces.

Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) define new ways to interact with our environment and hold great promise for clinical therapies. Motor BMIs, for instan...

Robotic milking: Technology, farm design, and effects on work flow.

Robotic milking reduces labor demands on dairy farms of all sizes and offers a more flexible lifestyle for farm families milking up to 250 cows. Becau...

Training Surgical Residents With a Haptic Robotic Central Venous Catheterization Simulator.

OJECTIVE: Ultrasound guided central venous catheterization (CVC) is a common surgical procedure with complication rates ranging from 5 to 21 percent. ...

Correlations of Complete Blood Count with Alanine and Aspartate Transaminase in Chinese Subjects and Prediction Based on Back-Propagation Artificial Neural Network (BP-ANN).

BACKGROUND The complete blood count (CBC) is the most common examination used to monitor overall health in clinical practice. Whether there is a relat...

Machine Learning Methods to Predict Diabetes Complications.

One of the areas where Artificial Intelligence is having more impact is machine learning, which develops algorithms able to learn patterns and decisio...

The potential impact of the hypovitaminosis D on metabolic complications in obese adolescents - Preliminary results.

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: Vitamin D deficiency is common in obesity; however, its contribution in the development of metabolic complications remains...

Robot-assisted gait training (Lokomat) improves walking function and activity in people with spinal cord injury: a systematic review.

UNLABELLED: Robot-assisted gait training (RAGT) after spinal cord injury (SCI) induces several different neurophysiological mechanisms to restore walk...

Feedback for reinforcement learning based brain-machine interfaces using confidence metrics.

OBJECTIVE: For brain-machine interfaces (BMI) to be used in activities of daily living by paralyzed individuals, the BMI should be as autonomous as po...